I have been using Main Type for a few months now and really liking it over all. Yesterday though, I attempted to load a subgroup of 369 fonts, and after the first 15 it stalled out and has an error that says Processing font information failure 12 of 369 failed. I can close the program and re-opening it, and the message comes up again. HELP?

Ok, so I restarted the fontservice, and it got rid of the initial loading error, but I still have some fonts that are coming up marked red in my active fonts. I tried uninstalling them, reloading them, and deleting them from Main Type, but they still show up with a red dot in the active list. Also, the options in the active list are grayed out. Any other ideas? I will include some screen shots that might be telling of a problem to a more experienced user.

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Last edited by atomicleprechaun on Fri Aug 04, 2017 2:00 am, edited 1 time in total.

Ok, so I restarted the fontservice, and it got rid of the initial loading error, but I still have some fonts that are coming up marked red in my active fonts. I tried uninstalling them, reloading them, and deleting them from Main Type, but they still show up with a red dot in the active list. Also, the options in the active list are grayed out. Any other ideas? I will include some screen shots that might be telling of a problem to a more experienced user.

The red dots indicate the fonts are loaded by an external application, so there is no way for MainType to detect the location, so it is impossible to unload them.

A reboot should ensure those fonts are no longer loaded. If they remain loaded after a reboot, then either the other application did load them again, or you discovered a bug in MainType. So do reboot and let us know your results!

I have also had the issue with red-dot marked fonts a couple of times (2-3) last time 2 days agoo. Had to solve with reboot as mentioned...
But it's a strange issue though, appears from nowhere, no action/handling done in Main Type or the Win syst fonts folder?? Just opening Main Type and there it is... the startup list of fonts, all marked with a red dot /bullet??
At startup I have 251 fonts active (about 180 in win syst font folder) and the rest from Main Type. The very strange thing is that when this issue appears Main Type indicates more than 4.000 fonts activated in the list?? If I get the issue again I will post a screenshot.